To put out sweets at Halloween?

[GinAtMerlottes]

I’m in a tier 2.

I don’t really understand why people are saying we can’t do trick or treating? It’s a big thing here and the children will miss it if we don’t go. Obviously we won’t be going around in a big group and will be keeping distance.

I have a wall alongside my drive, and I plan to set out small bags buttons/lollies etc along one by one so children can take as they walk past. I can literally see no problem with this. AIBU?

Buy a bagged up sweet bag with your mask on, gel hands before touching it.
Take it home, keep mask on, gel and wash hands, with a utensil take sweets and put them into small bags with gloved or sterilised hand. Lay bags outside.

YABU.

It is banned here- level 3-having a pumpkin trail instead.

With a bit of luck this stupid American custom will be abandoned

Oh please- do educate yourself.

It’s banned here. Even if it wasn’t I wouldn’t be taking my children trick or treating this year and they love to go. My youngest was devastated when I explained to him it couldn’t happen this year. We’re decorating the house, baking, carving pumpkins and watching movies together. All of our kids will be fine for 1 year.

It’s not just giving out sweets, it’s the encouraging people to congregate in the street, no social distancing and all will take is one person who can’t bear to have their child miss out on the fun and take them out before their 14 day isolation period is over “because they’ve got no Covid symptoms anymore” to infect a lot of people. Not to mention people who have it and don’t realise.

I predict a huge surge in covid cases in schools early November due to tne idiots who just carnt miss trick or treating for 1 year 😠 when schools have to close we know who to blame.

@Marzipan12 that makes absolutely no sense as the children are mixing anyway.

And no, I’m not doing Halloween

Of course it makes sense. Children are mixing in their bubbles. At Halloween 8f they go trick or treating g they will be knocking on doors possibly catching and passion g covid from house to house, gathering in tne street and mixing with children who are not in their bubble back to school pass on covid they have lucked up from multiple new contacts spreading in schools onto other children and teachers which equals closing bubbles and schools are people really this dense?It's a pandemic. Also on their rounds they risk passing it onto the elderly and vulnerable when they answer their doors, congratulations 😠

I really hope the elderly and vulnerable don't open their doors this Halloween if people decide to trick or treat. I don't think people should be knocking on doors this year as don't like to think of older people having even more to worry about.

Think the pumpkin hunt idea where people go to look at the decorations and their own parents provide the sweets is much more appropriate this year.

It should be banned full stop.

We are isolating due to a case in my child’s class. So they are missing out on all the half term fun. At lest they know that Truck or treating should not be happening this year.

Hand sanitiser doesn’t solve everything! The general rule has got to be don’t touch things you don’t need to.

Strongly suggest these selfish parents rethink their Halloween plans. There will inevitably be mixing and Covid can be spread by touching. Honestly give it a rest people and stop being so self centred!

@whyarewehardofthinking

Please do not do this.

In our school the risk assessment specifically states that students cannot retrive anything from a box or a tub because of the risk of contamination, and that is nothing to do with them giving pens back (because we can't share) this means they can't keep touching the same surfaces. I also have to clean every desk and chair and anything else they may have touched at the end of a lesson so that other people can then touch those surfaces.

Think about the glitter analogy (this is actually how we teach infectious disease transmission). One person has glitter on their hands. They touch other surfaces, their face, other people etc. After 10 minutes in a classroom, how many students do you think have glitter on them? Same applies to COVID, but COVID is also airbourne, so a kid could breathe, sneeze cough on your sweets too. You might see it as a minimal risk, but why have that risk at the moment?

We are expecting numbers to climb again after half term having heard about the plans parents and students have over the holidays, and by having seen students who should be isolating waiting outside school for friends in other year groups on Friday....

It's a shame so many people just can't understand this.

@Thisismylife1 we have a DC self isolating this week during half term too due to a child in their year testing positive, not even in their class. It’s really frustrating when you read that other people just refuse to make compromises or change their behaviour! It’s not like trick or treating is the only opportunity for children to get sweets!

No same person would let their kids take sweets from someone during a pandemic.
Seriously , this is ridiculous.

*sane

@Marzipan12

I predict a huge surge in covid cases in schools early November due to tne idiots who just carnt miss trick or treating for 1 year 😠 when schools have to close we know who to blame.

Yeah, it'll be like the HUUUGE surge after VE day, Easter, Mothers day, pubs reopening, people crowding onto beaches days. You know, all the ones that never happened even though so many people predicted them.

@Fluffybutter

No same person would let their kids take sweets from someone during a pandemic. Seriously , this is ridiculous.

But that's exactly what you do every time you buy sweets from a shop.

People who work in shops are temp checked everyday and have a covid safe practice in place.
Random people giving out sweets have not . Why would you even be encouraging this right now ? I stand by what I said

The last week on Mumsnet has taught me that Covid loves trick or treating but will probably take a well-earned rest over Christmas.

We have agreed with a few parents who’s kids are in our kids bubbles to pop round.

The kids all know the drill of going to each other’s doors now of knocking on it and then stepping well back. Sweets will be placed out for them to then pick up once the door is closed.

We get a chance to marvel at their amazing jokes and they get to go guising in a very controlled way. Plus there will be plenty of hand sanitizer provided. All the children will be accompanied make sure they keep to suitable distances.

@ChalkDinosaur

The last week on Mumsnet has taught me that Covid loves trick or treating but will probably take a well-earned rest over Christmas.

😂😂

We usually love trick or treating but I really don't think it's appropriate right now.

In my opinion those people who are happy to have groups of kids knock on their door and then hand them all sweets, aren't the type of people who are being careful to avoid catching and spreading Coronavirus.

How are you going to avoid the risk of the person opening the door then leaning down very close to your DC to talk to them and hand them sweets? Perhaps coughing a little as they do it (because they have a bit of a cough and cold that they haven't bothered to isolate or get tested for because they don't really believe in this boring virus thing).

There's one person on our village Facebook group encouraging everyone to trick or treat and get sweets from her house. She doesn't wear a mask, despite no medical reason not to and she certainly won't let a thing like Coronavirus stop her going out with her mates and having fun. She's exactly the type of person I don't want my children to be anywhere near during a pandemic. The phrase, I avoid her like the plague, springs to mind!

You can't control what the people who answer the door to trick or treaters do and therefore you can't know your children will be safe. It's simply not worth it for a bucket full of sweets.

We are going to do a Halloween treasure hunt at home and watch spooky films.

I did consider leaving out a bowl of sweets at the end of my drive for those that do go out. However, I remembered I did that once before when we were out trick or treating ourselves and when we came home not only had all the sweets gone but someone had taken our Halloween bowl too. Again, not the type of people I want near my home right now.

@feelingverylazytoday have you failed to notice that we are in the middle of a second wave. In my area the numbers in hospital are slightly higher than at the Peak. Scoff if you want but Halloween could be the tipping point to close school, have you failed to notice many pubs are already closed in many areas.

@Fluffybutter

People who work in shops are temp checked everyday and have a covid safe practice in place. Random people giving out sweets have not . Why would you even be encouraging this right now ? I stand by what I said

If you believe that all people who work in shops are getting temperature checked and are observing covid safe practice then you are living in cloud cuckoo land. Maybe some, but definitely not all.

Even if they were, a temperature check wouldn't pick up asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic carriers. Given the number of customers who don't know how to wear a face mask or stand back from a till while they are being served, I wouldn't be relying on shop workers being the break in the transmission chain.

Maybe so but trick and treating during a pandemic is ridiculous and risky and that is a fact that no one can dispute .
I really don’t understand why people are so desperate to take their kids out to get sweets or hand them out to others .
Buy sweets for your own kid if they’ll be that heartbroken!

Nope I won't be giving out anything to anyone and a note will be on my door. Not that I'm being mean I work in a care home treating covid patients so won't mix with anyone

People who work in shops are temp checked everyday and have a covid safe practice in place.
Random people giving out sweets have not . Why would you even be encouraging this right now ? I stand by what I said

No there not I worked in retail before I quit and not once was i temp checked. And I know a few others and none are there.